The splash screen and application launcher are the first things the user will see when starting up Apache OpenOffice.  They will also see it everyday.  It is important its usable and again consistent with branding.

Application Artifacts

 

Current 3.4.1

3.4.1 Current Shape

4.0 Proposed Shape

Comments

Splash Screen




Inconsistent with standard logo.
Inconsistent branding / placement and size.
Refers to Incubation!
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Make brand large single placement.
Remove verbiage.
Affiliation above loading bar.
Move progress bar to bottom, maybe replace with spinning circle.
Leave splash screen up until start screen is ready.

Start Screen




Inconsistent logo.
Inconsistent branding / placement and size.
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Make branding smaller, single placement.
Make the modules slightly larger.
Possibly remove the add ons.
Possibly in future have recent documents list, recent templates in templates popup.

About Screen



Inconsistent logo.
Inconsistent branding / placement.
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Make brand large single placement; Center it.
Replace area with scrollable text area.
Change Window Title to "About Apache OpenOffice"
*The spacing issues may have been fixed